Prince Gong Yixin wiped his sweat and said, "When I go back to the Queen Mother, the British side has agreed that the Qing Dynasty can buy 30,000 Enfield rifles and 10 million bullets from the UK. They sent three school-level officers to help us train the new army. The Qing Dynasty can form a new army of more than 50,000 people to Liaodong at any time and destroy this Chinese country. Since he dares to call it China, it is against the name of China in the Qing Dynasty, it is a rebellion. I have long said that this Chinese country was created by Xuan Yuemeng. Ω Please read the book W÷ｗΩＷ∮．∮ＱingKanShu．cC”

Empress Dowager Cixi stroked the ring on her finger, swept the ministers and sighed, "Li Hongzhang, tell me what should I do now?"

Li Hongzhang did not expect the situation to worsen so quickly. Xuan Yuemeng gave him a lot of money, and the money given to the court and Empress Dowager Cixi had not yet arrived. He was also worried that if everyone got Xuan Yuemeng's money, it would be easier. What he feared the most was that some people said that he and Xuan Yuemeng were in the same group.

Whether it is money or not, Li Hongzhang doesn’t care much, the key is that he cares about Cixi’s views on him.

Originally, Li Hongzhang was sure of Cixi's mentality and knew that 80% of them could make peace with China like last time, so he collected Xuan Yuemeng's money. How could he expect the situation to take a sharp turn?

"Report to the Empress Dowager, I dare not discuss such a big matter." Li Hongzhang's scheming and thoughtful as usual, "It's impossible for him to be a good man now. The other party has declared war. He can only follow what the Empress Dowager said before, let Prince Gong take charge of the overall situation and find a way to fight."

Prince Gong Yixin was furious and did not expect Li Hongzhang to say this. At present, Zuo Zongtang is in the northwest, and the only one who is capable of fighting in the court is Li Hongzhang's Huai Army. I am the leader? I am a short prince, what will I do to preside over it?

Empress Dowager Cixi nodded and said to Empress Dowager Ci'an and Emperor Tongzhi: "Sister, Master, look, what should I do now? I have no idea. It seems that Li Hongzhang is right. It seems that this is only the responsibility of the war between China. Prince Gong can only bear it! Prince Gong, you just said that the British are going to sell 30,000 guns and tens of millions of bullets? How much does it cost?"

Prince Gong Yixin hurriedly said, "Three million taels of official silver are enough. Please read the ΩΩ book W ∫ ﷬ ∫ ﷩．ΩＱingＫan Ｓhu．cＣ"

Empress Dowager Ci'an sighed, "Sister, I have never understood these things. But if you can avoid fighting, it is better not to fight. We have fought with bandits and nerfs for more than ten years. The country is weak and the people are tired. It is time to cultivate."

Emperor Tongzhi said angrily: "Prince Gong will solve the problem by himself. I heard that the royal palace has money! Originally, Xuan Yuemeng wanted to pay tribute to the emperor's mother two million taels, but now she has to go out three million taels! It's five million taels inside and outside! However, I believe Prince Gong is not short of these five million taels. When will Prince Gong get the money and prepare for the war?"

All the ministers were shocked and did not expect that Emperor Tongzhi had such deep resentment towards Prince Gong Yixin. This was because Prince Gong Yixin opposed the construction of the Summer Palace. Emperor Tongzhi believed that it was because the Summer Palace had not been repaired for a long time that Cixi did not move over. When Cixi moved to the new garden, he should be the one who decided to take charge of the palace!

Therefore, Emperor Tongzhi believed that Prince Gong Yixin and Cixi were in the same group.

In fact, Emperor Tongzhi really misunderstood Yixin. Li Hongzhang did his best for Cixi, for the sake of official titles and the ambition to find a title from marquis 8,000 miles away. Prince Gong Yixin's indeed for the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that the entire Qing court, the most for the country, must be Prince Gong Yixin!

Prince Gong Yixin had the ability to be an emperor, but did not have the fate of becoming an emperor. If Yixin had become the emperor, not Xianfeng, the Qing Dynasty would have become stronger, at least it would have lasted for decades. Please read the book W÷ｗΩＷΩ. ∮ＱingＫanＳhu． cC

Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice: "Prince, as far as I know, the Enfield rifle is a British gun from the 1950s, a bore flintspin that had long been eliminated. Now the Huai Army and the Chinese Army use the German 1871 rifle, which is currently the most advanced firearm in the world. Is it really cost-effective to buy outdated guns from the 1950s for three million taels of silver? And, is it really useful?"

Li Hongzhang also fought this time. On the one hand, he believed that Empress Dowager Cixi did not want to fight anymore and had to stand firmly. Li Hongzhang had long realized that Cixi was dissatisfied with Yixin. On the other hand, the Huai army was newly defeated and without foreign aid, it was difficult for the Huai army to break through the Chinese mainland. At this time, Yixin kept fighting. In Li Hongzhang's view, Yixin was not to dislike Xuan Yuemeng. After all, Xuan Yuemeng was just a child, and Yixin was a prince. Moreover, in Li Hongzhang's view, Xuan Yuemeng's declaration of war was not firm and did not put the Qing court in mind. The main attack was the United Kingdom. The diplomatic letter from Xuan Yuemeng was also proposed by Xuan Yuemeng to establish a strategic partnership with the Qing Dynasty.

Prince Gong Yixin was furious. He didn't expect that Li Hongzhang, who always thought it was his own, would turn against him. You know, Yixin had made great efforts in Li Hongzhang's promotion.

Cixi was very satisfied with Li Hongzhang's attitude, "Prince Gong, you have heard the emperor's meaning. I think you should take the lead and donate more money. The court is in trouble now and cannot afford to pay. Moreover, Li Hongzhang said that this kind of gun was already a gun from twenty years ago. The British sold us old goods, and this mute lost money and could not eat. It is best to let the British and Chinese fight, and we provide them with more food and silver. That is, we can't send troops ourselves, so it's best not to send troops."

Prince Gong Yixin was so angry. This was the matter of the entire court. Now it seems that it was his own business. Fortunately, there were a group of ministers who supported Yixin to help speak. Wen Xiang and Bao Jing said that they would teach China a lesson and take back their territory.

The diehards who were Li Hongzao did not say anything this time. In their opinion, Xuan Yuemeng was Li Hongzao's closed disciple, which was one of them. Moreover, since the territory had been given to others, the Huai Army took the initiative to challenge others this time, and now they could not defeat others. They also looked for foreigners and asked British people to help fight. Everyone knows who the British are. There is no one in the Qing court, including the whole country, who hates the British and French. These two countries directly caused harm to the Qing country.

For these reasons, the most radical diehards have remained silent this time.

When Empress Dowager Cixi saw Wen Xiang, Bao Jing and others speak, she was even more disgusted. She thought Yi Xin had reached some kind of agreement with the British and wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble. "Sixth Master, let's not talk about it anymore. Now that China has declared war on our Qing Dynasty and Britain, what should we do? Do we declare war? The British's attitude is that there is anything else besides selling our old guns? Will they send troops?"

Prince Gong Yixin was extremely angry. How could he know? Originally, the British could help the court stand up like this. For Yixin, he was already very surprised. How could he dare to ask the British to send troops? Of course, Yixin also knew that the British were not a good thing. If the British were really willing to send troops, then the war funds would be so big that the lion would have to speak out.

At the beginning, a foreign gun team recruited by itself spent more than one million taels of silver. How many people were there?

"I don't know what the Empress Dowager said, and the British did not say they wanted to send troops." Prince Gong Yixin replied honestly.

Empress Dowager Cixi said coldly: "Let's go, Master Liu, you are responsible for this matter. You don't know anything, so what else do you say? When you figure out what the British meant, let's talk about it!"

There was no internal dispute between the Qing court and there was no result. The main reason was that Cixi's attitude was unclear and she wanted to wait until the situation improved before seeing what was going on.

British Minister Witoma was simply crazy. He didn't expect that Xuan Yuemeng would declare war when he said he would declare war. Is it like a joke?

Witoma felt very stressed. He did not allow him to fight in the UK, and he did not have military power. To fight, he had to ask Burley, the commander of the British Far East Fleet, to ask for instructions in the country.

It’s not a British colonial dispute now, it’s not someone who infringes on Britain’s rights and interests, the most important thing is that it’s just that Britain is meddling in other people’s business now!

This situation is different. If Xuan Yuemeng was fighting Hong Kong at this moment, Vitoma would not have such great pressure.
Chapter completed!